1.  Dennis Eckersley, for one, knows about the immutable laws of diminished expectations back home.

2.  Dennis Martinez went home to Nicaragua in fine style last month, traveling with Tipper Gore and six members of Congress.

3.  Dennis Scott returned to his "second home," but the rims weren't very friendly.

4.  Denver is one of America's leading cable-television and telecommunications centers, home to TCI, a big cable television firm.

5.  Denver was home to a training base for Air Force bomber pilots and to one of the nation's largest Army hospitals.

6.  Defying his parents' expectations, he left home in 1973, at the age of 18, and headed to the city of Taipei to study theater.

7.  Cuban cafeterias offer plated foods to take home as well as eat in the restaurants, and they are often among the best food bargains found anywhere.

8.  CUC International Inc. intends to greatly expand its use of the Internet to provide home shopping and other consumer services, Chairman and Chief Executive Walter Forbes said.

9.  Dercher lives five blocks from the Manning home.

10.  Derr writes of a beloved dog who mysteriously got out of the house to greet his owners coming home from work the evening before he died.